David Holston

David Holston ( born January 26, 1986 in Pontiac, Michigan ) is an American professional basketball player. The comparatively small for a professional basketball player Holston plays since the end of his studies in his home country in 2009 as a professional in Europe. He played up to the Basketball Bundesliga 2011/12 with the Artland Dragons exclusively for clubs from the Türkiye Ligi Basketbol. Since the season 2012/13 he played for Büyükşehir Belediyesi SK from Mersin on the southeast coast of Anatolia. Currently, he plays again for the Artland Dragons in the Beko BBL.

Career

Holston got after graduating from Avondale High School in his hometown no athletic scholarship and began in 2004 to study at the Chicago State University. Their basketball team Cougars, for the Holston from 2005 was active in championship games, retired 2006 from the Mid-Continent Conference and formed until 2009 an independent team in the NCAA Division I. Holston helped the team in 2009 for their only third positive record this season with more victories as defeats in its then 25 -year membership in the Division I of the NCAA and the first since 1986. Holston itself was at 27.7 points per game in the season 2008 / 09, the second best player in this category throughout the Division I and with 450 successful three-point throws in his college career the second best player ever in the history of Division I. These records helped Holston and the otherwise unnoticed college team to media attention and made Holston, according to his coach to the face of the basketball program of this university. Despite invitations to training camps of clubs in the NBA as the Chicago Bulls, this was not sufficient to give Holston, which is approximately 20 to 25 cm less in height than the average professional players on his playing position, a professional contract in the NBA.

Holston therefore began his professional career in 2009 in Europe Pınar Karşıyaka from Izmir Türkiye Ligi Basketbol. Team reached twice the play-offs to the Turkish league, in which one was eliminated in the first round each of the following two seasons. In the third UEFA club competition Euro Challenge 2010/11 it was eliminated by the Russian representative BK Spartak Saint Petersburg in the quarterfinals. The same round he reached a season later with his new club Artland Dragons, where against the eventual champions Beşiktaş Milangaz was the last stop. In the National Basketball League 2011/12 the club Artländer retired for the second time in a row in the semifinal series of the Championship play-offs against the defending champion Brose Baskets Bamberg, against which it was excreted in the BBL Cup in 2012. In the season 2012/13 Holston then returned to Turkey and signed in the Southeast Anatolian Mersin a contract with the local basketball club. However, after a year he returned to Germany and joined the 2013/2014 season again the Artland Dragons at. There he was given a contract until 2015.